"And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap."
Chuck Palahniuk
"The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven."
Victor Hugo
"It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty."
Jeannette Walls
"A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth."
Dennis Adonis
"Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization."
Katherine Neville
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
Henry James
"Humans - a renewable resource."
Carrie Vaughn
"When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do."
Sarah Kay
"I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, 'Mamma, can I open the light?' She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation."
Ezra Pound
"There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way."
H.M. Ward
"Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad."
Kate McGahan
"Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Any process that fails the Common Sense Test, cannot pass a Biblical Test. Those who have more should share with those who have none or less; not the other way round. Prosperity Gospel is antichrist."
Felix Wantang
"Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves."
Richard Burr
"There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to."
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